The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-21
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign News,
WASHINGTON.


President Cleveland has definitely &C
cepted an invitation to attend the Piedmont
fair which will be held in Atlanta, Ga, dur
ing the first two weeks Of October. Great
preparations are in contemplation for his
reception.
Mrs. Whitney, wife of the Secretary of
the Navy, has donated $500 to the st. Johns
Episcopal Church Orphanage in commemo-
ration Of the baptism Of her daughter Doro-
thy at st. Johns,s Church recently.
The value of cotton exported from the
81, ,382, ,07S, against SIS, ,SSS, 100 in March,
1885. Exports Of mineral oils last month
aggregated 1854, ,942 against g, ,S24, ,394 dur
ing the same period in 1885.
B. e. Calhoun, son of Rear Admiral Cal
houn, q. 8. N, was married on his death
bed few days ago to Eleanor NJ. Semmes,
daughter Of a retired merchant of Washing
ton City. Mr.. Calhoun died few hours
later Of pneumonia
The gross postal receipts at thirty of the
larger post-offces in the country for the
frstthree months Of the present year were
e4746,046, an increase Of s2S1, ,4s1. over the
corresponding period of last year.
Secretary Whitney has awarded to the
Bethlehem Iron Works Company, Of Penn
sylyania, the contracts for furnishing about
l,4O0 tons OF steel gun forgings and 4,500
tons Of steel armour plates at q total cost of
64,512, ,93S. Its bid, although not the lowest
for the gun steel, was the lowest in the
aggregate for the two contracts.
The Treasury Department has refused to
accept trade dollars in payment Of dues.
Although these coins are temporarily re-
ceived in exchange for standard dollars,
the Department says they are deprived by
law Of any legal tender quality.
William Hennecl drummer for n Ral.
timore tin plate firm, had himself arrested
at Washington on the 18th for violating the
law imposing city license tax on CONNER
cial agents. He will make a test case Of it.
THE EAST.
The charter election held at Albany, N.
r, few days ago, resulted in Demo
cratic victory. The ticket for Supervisors
was elected by average majorities of 1,480.
The entire election board Of the Eighth
precinct, Second district, Jersey City N.
j., was arrested on the 18th for tampering
with the ballotrbox. The board consists Of
Patrick Golden, Judge; Patrick McGinnis
and Owen McCabe, inspectors, and G. T.
Dolan, clerk. The prisoners were arraigned,
waived examination, and held in 81 200 bail,
each to appear before the grand jury.
The custom house authorities at New
York are making adesperate effort to break
up the extensive business done in smuggled
cigars ON the steamers running to Cuba and
West Indian ports. A heavy seizure of
cigars was made on the 18th on board in
coming vessels.
The west bound limited express on the
Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad
struck shifting engine near the outer
depot in Allegheny City, Pa, on the 18th.
Both engines were badly damaged and En-
gineer George Blood and Fireman Sweeney,
Of the limited, were severely but not fatally
hurt.
The spring floods in the Connecticut and
Black rivers in Vermont are the highest
for twenty years.
Benjamin F. Glidden, David T. McNa-
mara and 7. f. Mulcahy, members of Typo
graphical Union No. Al, of New Haven,
Conn.,, convicted for boycotting the Journal
and Courier newspaper of that city, were
sentenced on the 18th to pay fine of $50
and costs each, making total of $403. The
fine was promptly paid.
Lieutenant G. v. Morris, a retired officer
of the United States Navy, and grandson
OF Robert Morris, one of the signers of the
Declaration Of Independence, died on the
18th at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y, aged
eighty-five years.
The demand Of the laborers at the rolling
mill Of the Pottsville (Pa.) Iron and Steel
Company for ten per cent. advance in
wages being refused, the men struck on the
18th. The mill has shut down indefinitely
in consequence, throwing 700 hands out Of
employment.
The old Philadelphia house of Kirkpatrick,
Kinsey & Co, tanners, suspended on the
18th. The liabilities are reported to be
$4,000.
The American Wheel Manufacturing As
sociRtion held q meeting in Pittsburgh on
the 18th to interchange views upon the bust
ness in the different wheel manufactures.
Neither price lists nor the wage question
were considered. Trade was reported good.
An aged Irishman named "Blind Tom,"
who lost his sight while in the army,
dropped dead in a saloon in New York on
the 18th on receiving notice from Washing
ton that he was entitled to sc, 600 arrears of
pension and hereafter would receive seven
ty-five dollars per month.
An indignation meeting of about 500 Rus-
sian Jews was held in New York on the
18th to protest against the ratification of
the Russian-American extradition treaty.
The Phelps Induction Telegraph and Rail-
way Telegraph and Telephone Company
have amalgamated under the title Of the
Consolidated Railway Telegraph Company,
OF 800 each.
The Pennsylvania Senate on the 18th
passed by a vote Of 81 to 16 a joint resolu-
ton proposing Woman's Suffrage Consti-
tutional Amendment.
The ferry boat Atlanta, while tied to her
slip at Camden, N. j., on the 18th, caught
fire and was burned to the waters edge
Loss, $S5, 600. She belonged to the Camden
& Atlantic Railroad Company.
George Grace, superintendent of the
Western Union offices along the New
ls>I
Pa, on the 18th. Mr.. Grace arranged the
system of news gathering by telegraph
operators, which led to the formation of the
American Press Association.
Five cattle infected with pleuro pneu-
monia on the farm of John Frye, in Manor
township, Lancaster. Pa, were ordered
killed on the 18th by Secretary Edge, of the
Pennsylvania State Board Of Agriculture.
The steamship Candernagor, which ar
rived at New York on the 18th from Paler-
mo, Genoa and Marseilles, with ], ,235 steer
age passengers, has n,detained at quar-
sntine on account Of an epidemic of small
pox on board. All communication with the
steamship is prohibited.
j. p. Taylor, aged sixty, his wife and son,
Owen, aged seventeen, were struck and in
stantly killed by an Erie train on the 18th
at the crossing near Waverley, N. Y. Tsy'
lor was a wealthy farmer. The accident
destroyed the entire family.
r. B. Lobdell, who kept general store
and private banking house at West Salem
N. Y, made an assignment on the 18th. Hi.
failure is said to have been caused by ever
confidence in a clerk named Miner, who has
disappeared. Lobdel was worth $30,0
few months ago, but is believed to be nov
penniless.
At Lebanon, Pa, on the 14th, during tn,
absence of the parents, Raymond Shay
aged five years, lighted stick at the stoy'
and set fire to the clothing Of his brothe
Ernst, aged two years. Before assistance
could be rendered Ernst was burned t,
death.
Water Register Michael H. Murphy, o
Hoboken, N. j., is missing. His account
show a shortage Of &c, 600.
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